How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Sep 21, 2026 · 48 min

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0:00This is Hidden Brain.

0:01I'm Shankar Vedantam.

0:03You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

0:07It's an old saying, but it captures a fundamental truth about human nature.

0:12How often have you come by people who fail to seize the opportunities in front of them, who decline to make the most of the privileges they've been given?

0:21If you're a parent or a teacher, you may have sometimes felt like saying to a kid, I can't make you want it.

0:29If you're a manager, perhaps you've told an employee, there's a ladder over here, but you have to be the one to climb it.

0:37Sometimes, the thing that needs to be seized is not an opportunity, but a lifeline.

0:42Do you know people stuck in bad situations, unhappy marriages, dead-end jobs, soul-crushing living conditions, who seem unwilling to escape even when the chance presents itself?

0:55Does that describe you?

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